My new room, and other surprises

The before and after pictures of my room, as promised. I did this with my bare hands and about $30USD:


I've been to the doctor here about my (stupidly) fractured elbow from a snowboarding accident, and he believes it is healing well from surgery. It's a bit early for physical therapy, and I don't think he wants me to do it in any case. Eek.

But I did manage to do some hiking in the mountains in between the nearly constant downpour of the rainy season. Last weekend Marc and I, and his friend WenPing, took a long bus-ride to JuMing Sculpture Museum way out in JinShan (on the other side of YangMing Shan). It wasn't raining, although it did take a very long time, and JuMing's work is really wonderful and kind of humorous: